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Probably done over a decade ago. Today we wouldn't see this
by henry700 1y ago
Probably done over a decade ago. Today we wouldn't see this
- pi_22by7 1y agooh, for sureee
- hnlmorg 1y agoThat explains why we aren’t talking about it today then.
- fnordpiglet 1y agoSource code isn’t written afresh every day. The point was the code was written at a different era and the current era wouldn’t produce this sort of code, and presumably you wouldn’t see anything but a generic 500. This is likely because product managers can’t stand free thought and action amongst engineers as it doesn’t appease their bean counter overlords sufficiently.
- hnlmorg 1y agoYou don’t know when that was written.
- jabjq 1y agoIf you use Google to find this string you will find very old references. (“Very old” is relative)
- kartoffelsaft 1y agoIt had been written by (at the latest) September 2008: https://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2008/09/best-gmail-error-message.html?m=1 https://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2008/09/best-gmail-error-m...
- JadeNB 1y agoWow, seeing someone (presumably) unironically saying "This is why we love Google" was definitely a throwback to an earlier time. https://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2008/09/best-gmail-error-message.html?showComment=1222411740000&m=1#c4141561695680799203 https://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2008/09/best-gmail-error-m...
- furyofantares 1y agoI definitely still loved Google in 2008.
- fnordpiglet 1y agoThat’s pretty presumptuous, but especially so when there are comments parallel from googlers pinning the date and it’s easily determined by using this very powerful information retrieval tool called “Google.” Not to mention the possibility I work at Google, or that I wrote it myself!